When you've had cancer (or any other life threatening illness) you become very thankful that the NHS has the services and drugs to get you through it, even if the ultimate length of survival remains in the dice cup of the Gods.

You also, on survival may feel a degree of guilt for actually having survived when so many others didn't make it. Here I speak from personal experience.

That position of guilt may be exacerbated when you continue to lose friends who, even though diagnosed after yourself, have passed away so quickly.

I have recently lost 3 very close friends to cancer. One, my best man, a mere 3 weeks after my wedding and another one less than 6 weeks following his diagnosis of cancer.

Hence this blinkered, philistine , pig ignorant "we're all right jack but we gotta pick a patient's pocket or two" attitude by the aforementioned bunch of morons called NICE in choosing who shall live and who shall die (They call it playing God if any of them are reading this!) has brought the bile rising to my throat in buckets.

Last week saw liver cancer sufferers being denied the drug Nexavar because it "wasn't cost effective" in as much as it 'only' gave the sufferer an average of 6 months more life!

What the.....???????

Has it nor filtered through the thick skulls of these accounting-based morons that in the 6 months of extra life allowing further studying of the effects of the drug, new results and improvements may come to light?

No, of course it hasn't as all they see is Gordon dumb-a** Brown's bean counters needing more money to send our troops to fight and lose their lives in other people's battles rather than use that money to help our failing medical services maintain the people of this country.

So having blocked Nexavar, a couple of weeks later they do the same with Avastin, a bowel cancer fighter which it is known can give another 2 years life expectancy to the sufferer.

But no, yet again it isn't "cost effective". What planet are these blood and stomach pills morons actually from?????

These are people's lives your messing with.

Around 35,000 people a year develop bowel cancer in the UK and around 4,000 to 5,000 could benefit from this drug.

But they'll never get the chance of life because they live in the UK.

If they lived virtually anywhere else in the EU (Of whom we're supposed to be full card carrying and bottom-of-the-treaty-signing members) then they'd get the drug - no question.

And it's not just France, Germany, Italy and the Scandinavian nations who use it but also Canada and Australia where the governments all meet the cost of using it.

Mind you, of course when the female government health secretary Patricia Hewitt stepped in over the breast cancer drug Herceptin, suddenly that was fast-tracked through the system and loud self-applause and back slapping followed.

If you get the impression I am spitting flames then you're exactly like it says in the title of the Supertramp song "Bl**dy Well Right!"

We can only hope that when the Tories or ANYONE OTHER THAN LABOUR get's in at the next election they boot NICE right up the fundament and into touch PDQ....

This government has played God for far too long and it's time they we're expunged!